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Weekly Health Digest: BMI no longer useful, anti-vaccine legislation rising, abortion bans interrupt healthcare

October 10, 2022
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New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: BMI no longer useful, anti-vaccine legislation rising, abortion bans interrupt healthcare

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Health Beyond the Blog: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: Emily Kim endorses Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" as it explores society’s inability to address mental health issues.

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Dr. Chikako Ozawa de Silva: Explorations Into the Lonely Society

This podcast brings us face to face with one of the most distressing issues of the modern world. In this episode, Dr. Chikako Ozawa de Silva shows how intimately suicide is connected with aspects of modern life that generate loneliness.

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Weekly Health Digest: Nursing Homes, ALS, and “Healthy” Food

New from the @EmoryCSHH News Team: tracking nursing home business' data, a new ALS drug enters the marketplace, and the FDA is changing what is “healthy.”

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Health Beyond the Blog: Rachel E. Gross and “Vagina Obscura”

New on Health Beyond the Blog: Vagina Obscura. Prof. Maryn Mckenna interviews Rachel Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, which details how anatomists mapped female reproductive organs and how a new generation is wresting them back.

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Weekly Health Digest: Intense Walking, Egg Freezing, and Natural Wine

September 26, 2022
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Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: the health benefits of intense walking, the reality of freezing your eggs, and the “natural” wine phenomena

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Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism

September 23, 2022
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The 2022 South Korean TV show “Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo” follows a young lawyer with autism spectrum disorder and shows how she thrives amidst stigma.

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Thank You, Emory!

September 21, 2022
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A core principle of human health is the idea that health is not merely the absence of disease. Rather, health is a dynamic state of physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being.

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Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically

The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.

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Weekly Health Digest: Avoiding Gym Injuries, the Effects of Sitting, and the New Cost of FDA Approval

September 19, 2022
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Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: how to avoid gym injuries, the detrimental health effects of sitting, and are pharmaceutical companies buying FDA approval via user fees?

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